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Well, I don't actually do any coding at this job - I just brought my laptop along to have something to do when things got slow
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Then they cannot claim their rights to any piece of code you wrote.
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Go ahead and rewrite it in Python if you want, but I'd advise you not to; it just seems like a waste of effort - not just your effort in rewriting old code, but both of ours in that any features one of us adds, the other will have to add as well in the other language.
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It's very easy to embedd python code in C. The most trivial example is to write:
#include <Python.h>
and now you can use Python api functions inside you C code.
Ruby and Python are great OO Languages, if you are looking for one and don't want to use Java (bleh
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But almost surely python script will be slower than C bytecode, so I don't expect significant impovement here. But it's worth a try, I think. It's very easy to delete entire project folder afterall. Positive side is that this app could be much smaller, crossplatform and very easy to extend or embed.